“I really wanted to go back to a body-conscious silhouette, which isn’t the same as a skinny silhouette. There’s space for the shoulders, the chest, the waist, the hips. Something very athletic. I thought about working hard and studying hard and going to the gym hard and becoming the best you can be. Talking about athletics brought us to the idea of having a healthy mind and body, which then brought us to this film Gattaca — a huge step, but that’s how things go sometimes.” – Dior Homme designer Kris Van Assche for OUT

“I understood at one point how important Gaultier was to Madonna. That was a bit of a moment. But then very fast I discovered there was this academy in Antwerp that was half an hour from where I used to live. Paris was like the other side of the world when I was a kid, but Antwerp was really very close; all at once, there was something very approachable about fashion.” – Kris Van Assche for OUT